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Drama is going on over in Japan regarding these miniature robotic crop dusters being manufactured by Yamaha. More than 200 Japanese police officers raided the Yamaha office Monday seizing nine of these crop dusting robots that were scheduled to be exported. These robots are unmanned, equipped with GPS and can be programmed to fly however…
Next time you go to get your gall bladder removed, your surgeon may have a tiny helper. No, it’s not a bile-covered gnome. It’s a robot! Instead of the older laparoscopic cameras that are used for this and other smaller surgeries, new radio-controlled mini-robots are now being tested on animals (that pig didn’t need his…
Ok, so the Manual Power Europe gyroscope isn’t the highest-tech gadget we’ve laid eyes on, but when it says it’s based on Newton’s First Law, who could resist it? Basically, you’re turning the rotor, which is producing energy and then forwarding it on to a cellphone. The gyroscope can also store the energy in a…
Forget us poor schlubs who use our Blackberrys to email each other about what time we’re meeting at the bar for drinks, it’s the million-dollar CEOs who are seriously freaking out about losing service from RIM if this patent infringement case with NTP goes any further. With the Davos World Economic Forum starting today, it…
Some of Dave’s sleuthy readers over at MobilityToday have found an interesting document that goes over the entire hw69xx series from the HP website. What can be learned from this document? Well no US version is listed. Hrm, what could it mean? HP hw69xx confirmed by HP.com [MobilityToday]
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Listen up, you studious students. iTunes will be releasing a new service to help further your studying, and by studying, I mean skipping class and not worrying about it. iTunes U will be teaming up with universities and other education establishments to offer a free hosting service for educators. With this service instructors can upload…
Olympus is having a big day, first with its E-Volt E330 DSLR and now with three new Stylus cameras to shine up their lineup. The first is the Stylus 710, with 7.1 megapixels, 3x optical zoom, 2.5-inch LCD and the company’s Bright Capture Technology that it says should help with taking and reviewing images in…
First Ben-Q announces a tie-in with Siemens to make cellphones and now we have news of the P50 smartphone/PDA. It offers quad-band coverage and runs on Microsoft’s Windows Mobile 2003 (that’s a bit odd, huh?). The insides are powered by an Intel PXA272 416MHz processor and it has 64MB of SDRAM and 64MB of Flash…
This Prismiq Mini-Fi USB 2.0 wireless 802.11b/g adapter isn’t much to talk about, other than the fact that it is small and pretty darn cheap. I recently breathed life into an old laptop without WiFi and I wouldn’t mind paying just $40 for something like this. It’s also backward-compatible with all 802.11b and 802.11b+ wireless…
From Sharp Minds Come Cheap Products By Brendan I. Koerner Along with “lose five pounds” and “finally overcome a debilitating fear of clowns,” getting organized is one of the most common New Year’s resolutions. Come on, you know you’ve made the promise more than once—that this is the year you finally start writing down phone…
We told you all about Samsung’s crazy-ass 7.7 megapixel cameraphone with optical zoom, but now we have a proper pic. So here it is in all its glory. Also includes DMB TV reception, TV-output, landscape view, MP3 audio playback, and microSD memory card storage. Samsung 7.7-Megapixel DMB Camera Phone
In a gesture of peace, happiness and love, the UN has decided to back the much-talked-about $100, hand-cranked laptop. And you won’t believe where the the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) is planning on signing the partnership agreement with MIT’s Nicholas Negroponte. Yes, that’s right, the luxury ski resort of Davos, where lots of fat…
It’s a sad day in Sony-land. Though we don’t have absolute confirmation, a gander at Sony’s corporate website seems to say that the company has halted new product development of this lovable robot dog, and production was supposed to have stopped at the end of last year. This despite recent scientific research showing the health…
We’re having some issues with Movable Type and our servers today so the Gizmodo writers are striking and drinking. Hopefully we’ll have some posts up when we buy a new hamster for our 386 WebServorator1999.
Forget all the bells and whistles you have to mess with to get your MP3 player properly hooked up in your automobile, here’s a nifty little gadget that replaces the whole shebang. The Yifang EM192F is a car charger, FM modulator, and USB MP3/WMA reader, all in one device. Slap this thing into your cigarette…
Tired of that Bluetooth headset acting like an earplug, making you say what? What? WHAT? when somebody walks up to you and wants to talk to you? Here s some new technology that lets you keep your Bluetooth headset in your ear and still hear everything around you, and it works by mixing the audio…
Rumors are swirling that Sony is just about to announce a smaller, lighter and lower-priced HDV camcorder for the consumer market. HDV, as you recall, is the new lower-priced high-definition camcorder format that moves video around in a similar way to its little brother, DV. The Sony HDR-HC3 will reportedly have a single 1/3″ 2-megapixel…
Owners of the Mac PowerBook G4 are experiencing an audio defect in their high-resolution, 15- and 17-inch models. The problem, described as a looping echo sound that magnifies itself for about four to five seconds while playing any kind of audio or video, was also reported in 12-inch notebooks. There are also numerous reports that…
As a child, or even now, you wished for a radio-controlled airplane on your birthday. Here’s the one you always wanted: The “TOMITECH Aerosoarer” (6.7 x 7.8 inches), an infrared controlled model airplane made for the indoors. It comes in six colors, and because it’s made out of styrene foam it weighs just 0.12 oz.…